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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1.
(a) Goose honks
(b) Moose calls
(c) Bat squeaks
(d) Wolf howls

2. How many pilots were available in Churchill by the time Mowat arrived?
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) One
(d) Three

3. How many passengers is the aircraft designed to carry?
(a) Thirty
(b) Ten
(c) Twenty
(d) Two

4. To get to their hunting grounds, what direction must the wolves travel from their den?
(a) South
(b) West
(c) East
(d) North

5. How much territory do they cover in a nightly hunt, according to Farley Mowat's estimates?
(a) Forty or fifty miles
(b) Ten or twenty miles
(c) Twenty or thirty miles
(d) Thirty or forty miles

6. What is Mike's age?
(a) Twenty-two
(b) Twenty
(c) Eighteen
(d) Sixteen

7. Mowat's radio has a range of how many miles?
(a) 60 miles
(b) 80 miles
(c) 20 miles
(d) 40 miles

8. How long was Mowat given to submit his first progress report?
(a) Six weeks
(b) Two weeks
(c) Two months
(d) A month

9. There, Mowat encounters:
(a) An old trapper
(b) Some vicious fish
(c) A curious wolf cub
(d) Some hungry mice

10. What makes the cabin smell bad?
(a) Dog droppings
(b) Skunks
(c) Mice
(d) Decaying caribou

11. What does the wolf do?
(a) Bites Mowat
(b) Attacks Mowat
(c) Run away
(d) Snarls angriy

12. Scatology is the study of animal:
(a) Tracks
(b) Behavior
(c) Breeding
(d) Droppings

13. What does Mowat most admire about the lead wolf's marking outside his marks?
(a) That he did it with the speed of a jet
(b) That he covered all the ground and then some
(c) That he hit each mark exactly on the button
(d) That he did it on one tank of fuel

14. Why does the plane have trouble taking off?
(a) A drunken pilot
(b) A faulty engine
(c) Frozen skis
(d) A broken wing

15. What, according to the Government agencies, was the cause of plunge in caribou populations?
(a) Arctic Wolves
(b) Pollution
(c) Global warming
(d) Human hunters

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Farley Mowat NOT take with him to his new location?

2. The Department of Mines and Resources wants to save what species?

3. Where do the wolves keep their meat cache?

4. What type of aircraft flies Mowat to Churchill?

5. The plane flew at what altitude?

(see the answer keys)

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